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    • Voto 6.5/10

      Leggere il Mondo Nuovo creato da Huxley fa paura: uomini allevati – non più nati – in varie caste, attraverso manipolazioni genetiche. Completa libertà sessuale, purché non indirizzaa al concepimento, che è invece considerato una barbarie. Messa al bando di comportamenti antisocial ... Continue

      Voto 6.5/10

      Leggere il Mondo Nuovo creato da Huxley fa paura: uomini allevati – non più nati – in varie caste, attraverso manipolazioni genetiche. Completa libertà sessuale, purché non indirizzaa al concepimento, che è invece considerato una barbarie. Messa al bando di comportamenti antisociali come la castità, la monogamia, il pensiero filosofico. Condizionamento degli individui fin da piccoli affinché diventino dei consumatori perfetti e rigettino qualsiasi forma di pensiero individuale o di spiritualità e religione. Uso di ritrovati medici per sembrare giovani anche a 60 anni.

      Difficile non riconoscere il nostro mondo nella descrizione di questo Mondo Nuovo fatta a Huxley negli anni ’30 del secolo scorso.

      Ed è proprio nella descrizione di questo Mondo Nuovo che sta la forza del libro. Forza che però comincia a svanire con l’arrivo del Selvaggio, il personaggio riportato da una riserva nella quale – ORRORE – si fanno ancora nascere figli in modo naturale, s’invecchia e si muore. Dall’arrivo del Selvaggio il libro scivola un po’ banalmente, a mio parere, e i personaggi diventano completamente stereotipati. Il finale poi, ammetto di non averlo capito.

      Resta un libro che, contemporaneo di 1984, propose un modello di totalitarismo alternativo. Nel breve periodo ci vide giusto Orwell. Chissà che nel lungo periodo non prevalga Huxley.

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  • Demonio Pellegrino said on Aug 31, 2009 about the Paperback edition
    • I was actually hoping for something a little better. I read this thinking it would be as good as 1984, but it just wasn't so. Maybe my expectations were set to high.

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  • Dave Sanders said on Feb 12, 2008

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Book Description

A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.

"Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers."
--Saturday Review of Literature

"A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay."
--Forum

"It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive ads the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art...This is surely Huxley's best book."
--Martin Green

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Paperback 288 Pages
Edition: Reprint
ISBN-10: 0060929871
ISBN-13: 9780060929879
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub date: Sep 01, 1998
Dimensions: 20 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Leather Bound, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Unbound and Others
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